Friday, January 2, 2009

Good Riddance, 2008!

Every year we do some sort of home gourmet meal with friends and family. Last year, our neighbors had a fun party with lots of us, but this year we did the scaled down version. 7 of us, multiple courses and wines. My husband did the menu layout, here it is with photos, footnotes for the wines.

For passing

Canapés (1) - Gougeres and Bresaola with Peppered Chevre

Gougeres were from The French Laundry, but I used some raw milk cheddar instead of gruyere.

Bresaola and chevre idea was a good one, next time with a roasted pepper or sun dried tomato slice.

For sitting

Salmon Tartare (2)

From Bouchon. Lots of chopping. Mine is not quite as meticulously chopped as the photo from Bouchon, and for some reason there was not enough egg yolk for all the plates.

Mushroom Soup with Truffle Cream

This is Bourdain's soup recipe again, but I added a bit of truffle oil to some heavy cream & frothed it a bit with my immersion blender. Yum!!

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I love to cook. I just realized this in the last few years, although my dad is a chef so you think I would have learned from him. But I didn't, and I wish I had learned more (too busy sulking through my teenage years I guess). Welcome to my blog about food, and maybe a few other fun things thrown it for good measure!